Florence King`s
column is the best reason for reading National Review.
Her
"Misanthrope`s Corner," placed on the
magazine`s last page, makes
National Review a publication that
is read from back to front.

[Peter Brimelow interjects:
Ah, happy memories! John O`Sullivan invited Florence
King to NR because
I`d showed him my copy of her brilliant book on
America`s Founding Ethnicity
Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?. This,
of course, was
before Buckley abandoned
immigration reform and purged us from the magazine. Come
to think of it, I never got my commission.]

In her latest (Feb.
25), Miss King relates the relief expressed by her
driving instructor when he discovered she was Miss King
and not Miss Ling: "Last slant I had put us both in the
hospital."

The driving
school`s secretary had hit "L" instead of "K" on the
typewriter key, sending the instructor into a fit of
panic and hypertension. Relieved from the fear instilled
by a typo, the instructor gave Miss King his views on
why Asians should not be permitted to operate motor
vehicles.

This incident
occurred, of course, in the distant past—1974. That was
a year when Americans still had freedom of speech, the
exercise of which had not yet been turned into a

Miss King`s
observations were still in mind when I read
reports of the arrest this month of 10
black males for a series of racial attacks on white
University of Virginia students in Charlottesville over
the past six months. According to police, the attacks
were not a town-gown conflict, nor were the assaults
motivated by rape or robbery. The students were simply
beaten for being white.

The national media
are too

politically correct to report
black-on-white
hate crimes,
which leaves Americans ignorant of the growing incidence
of such crimes. Local newspapers sometimes report these
crimes if they occur within the city limits. Otherwise,
there are only the police reports.

The politically
correct Charlottesville mayor, Blake Caravati, is busily
at work denying the facts. In Mayor Caravati`s
MultiCulti-speak, [You can

send him mail.]
the crimes have become "incidents."
Charlottesville`s political leader also dismissed the
description, given by the police and the assailants
themselves, of the physical assaults as "race-based."
Whether the beatings were racially motivated, says His
Honor, is

The mayor went on
to express his sympathy for the assailants and their
families, who, unlike the victims, are local residents
and voters.

The white students
were lucky they were set upon and beaten before they had
time to open their mouths. If the black assailants had
been smarter, they could have given the whites a jail
term instead of a beating.

If instead of
delivering blows, the black assailants had informed the
whites of what they thought of their girl friends and
mothers, they might have stirred enough anger to elicit
verbal responses, perhaps even the n-word, that would
qualify as hate speech. Maybe a white student would even
have—heaven forbid—struck a black tormentor.

Goaded into
committing hate crimes, the arrested whites would be
national news, and mayor Caravati would not be making
apologies for them.

Miss King is
correct that her driving instructor can no longer
express his views on Asian driving students. This same
inhibition means that no white can respond in kind to
verbal assaults from a "protected minority" without
being arrested for a hate crime.

Racial privilege is
a
fact of U.S. law. Recently, in Idaho a
white husband was arrested by white police, prosecuted
by a white prosecutor, convicted by a white jury, and
sentenced to jail by a white judge for coming to the
defense of his white wife who was physically assaulted
by a black male. You can read

The black`s
physical assault on the wife was minor, but the
husband`s verbal assault was not. The enraged husband
used the n-word.

White males had
best give up any idea of

defending their women or themselves,
and women should not confuse their men`s aversion to
jail with cowardice. America has returned to the feudal
age when legally-privileged nobles could assault
commoners at will, but woe to any commoner who returned
the compliment.

This extraordinary
inequality is what we owe to the Civil Rights movement,
white male presidents, white legislators, and white
attorney generals.